Swedish Parker!

Three days in the North.

Apparently cars aren’t that well insulated from -7 degree temperatures.. at night…

Sort of like an Ice Hotel on wheels.

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Before said night in the cold, we’d driven nine hours North-West from Stockholm to reach the base of the Western Swedish mountains.

We awoke to find it absolutely f&#king freezing, yet incredibly beautiful – snow-capped mountains, icy rivers, frozen lakes…

After driving through Åre (the Stureplan of Swedish ski resorts), we took a detour along the very old Swedish-Norwegian mountain highway

before stumbling upon THE craziest waterfall I’ve ever seen.

 

Tännforsen (aka the Crazy Swedish Ice Waterfall)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwrdCdWHpQg[/youtube]

After I just watched my video again, it suddenly reminded me of that river scene in the first Narnia movie (the one with the Wardrobe and that).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Ke72gfd6U[/youtube]
Sweden=Narnia?

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By the next morning we’d made it all the way back to the other side of the country, to the Höga Kusten (The High Coast). Amanda pretty much randomly chose the area after looking at a map of Sweden, and then it turns out to be a spectacular, World Heritage listed area.

We even came across a couple of guys that were actually surfing in Sweden… in the middle of Winter, in the North. Mental…

 

Just a shame there’s only 7 hours a day to take in the scenery…

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…Amanda with “Chodey” the Snow Man

 

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